{"id":69443,"date":"2021-10-07T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T16:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=69443"},"modified":"2021-10-07T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T16:22:42","slug":"bu-today-close-up-skills-for-occupational-based-practice-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/bu-today-close-up-skills-for-occupational-based-practice-course\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>BU Today<\/em> Close Up: Skills for Occupational-Based Practice Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our Skills for Occupational-Based Practice I course taught by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/pedro-almeida\/\">Clinical Assistant Professor Pedro Almeida<\/a>, students learn to develop adaptive and compensatory strategies to help their future clients during the performance of activities of daily living. They also work to identify the biomechanical, cognitive, and sensory components required to perform such activities, for example, based on a client transitioning from a hospital to their home.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment69444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment69444\" style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sargent\/files\/2021\/10\/grad-class-prof-21-1426-SARCLASS_010-1500x1000-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69444 size-full\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2021\/10\/grad-class-prof-21-1426-SARCLASS_010-1500x1000-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2021\/10\/grad-class-prof-21-1426-SARCLASS_010-1500x1000-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2021\/10\/grad-class-prof-21-1426-SARCLASS_010-1500x1000-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2021\/10\/grad-class-prof-21-1426-SARCLASS_010-1500x1000-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment69444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jackie Ricciardi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Students consider the interactions of diverse and complex systems on routine activities, like washing hands, taking medications, eating, and many others) while also trying to predict what will happen in situations when clients would expect difficulties caused by conditions affecting these functions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment69445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment69445\" style=\"width: 1469px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sargent\/files\/2021\/10\/grad-class-students-21-1426-SARCLASS_006-1459x1000-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69445 size-full\" width=\"1459\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2021\/10\/grad-class-students-21-1426-SARCLASS_006-1459x1000-1.jpg 1459w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2021\/10\/grad-class-students-21-1426-SARCLASS_006-1459x1000-1-636x436.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2021\/10\/grad-class-students-21-1426-SARCLASS_006-1459x1000-1-1024x702.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2021\/10\/grad-class-students-21-1426-SARCLASS_006-1459x1000-1-768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1459px) 100vw, 1459px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment69445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jackie Ricciardi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our Skills for Occupational-Based Practice I course taught by Clinical Assistant Professor Pedro Almeida, students learn to develop adaptive and compensatory strategies to help their future clients during the performance of activities of daily living. They also work to identify the biomechanical, cognitive, and sensory components required to perform such activities, for example, based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5825,"featured_media":69445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5144,5143],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69448,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69443\/revisions\/69448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}